thank
you for your visit and report
of Norway (1)
with the call to end practices which result in forced
institutionalisation and treatment of people with disabilities.

Thank
you for taking into accountlegal
opinion of MDAC showing that Norway should withdraw reservations
to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD), because they undermine the very object and purpose of the
CRPD. MDAC send this legal opinion to the Prime
Ministers Office filed under reference
2013/1135 but not answered.

The
governments
answer “acknowledges the challenges and complex questions”
and “will consider further steps on the basis of the coming
assessment of the national strategy carried out by the Directorate of
health”. Obviously Norway's answer of practising more coercion
then any other country in Europe is wrong. These human right
violations of forced drugging are not necessary in a democratic
society. 15 years talk and plans to reduce coercion in treatment have
been a failure, i. e. one third increase (4).

(a)
“Whether the use of restraints and the enforced administration
of intrusive and irreversible treatments such as neuroleptic drugs
and electroconvulsive therapy has been abolished in law...”

The
Ministry of Health answer to me has so
far been to wait for the results of a National Strategy to reduce
coercion in Psychiatry (2012-2015). Results has so far not exceeded 5
to 7 % per year. However since year 2000 it was known that coercion
in psychiatry raises human rights questions and there have been plans
to reduce coercion in psychiatry. The overall result was an increase
of a third from 2000 to 2015 (4).

I
send a copy to Norwegian civil society shareholders to keep them
informed.